Artist Statement

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Instead of starting with a fixed final image, I start with a condition. This could be a compositional framework, a limited palette, a motif, or a material. I work primarily on absorbent paper, building colour and white through layers of varying transparency and density.

 

Since I don’t start with a predetermined image, a painting might appear finished at different stages in the process. A composition may already hold together, but I don’t let the painting finish there.

 

What results is a surface that resists settling into a single reading. Different parts of the painting draw the viewer’s attention in different directions. Even when newer layers are added, earlier ones remain visible. A passage that first reads one way may begin to function differently as the painting changes around it. I don’t like things to be taken in at a single glance.

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